16 October 2019 - Article
Giorgio Vaselli
Special Counsel | Milan
Giorgio is special counsel in the Italian Private client and tax team.
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He focuses on various aspects of domestic and international taxation, with particular regard to corporate clients, investment funds, real estate and trusts.
Giorgio’s clients include domestic and foreign corporations and individuals, luxury brands, sportsmen, investment funds and fund managers.
More precisely, Giorgio provides sophisticated tax planning for sportsmen, planning the taxation of their image rights and of their employment agreements, working cross border with other Withers’ teams in different locations. Over the years, Giorgio accrued experience in taxation of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets, on AML legal assistance and on international exchange of tax information.
Giorgio regularly lectures at postgraduate masters and seminar in international taxation and wealth planning.
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He assisted various foreign investment funds managers on the Italian tax aspects related to the structuring of the investment, fund raising and individual investment matters (including high-frequency trading, renewable energy and Italian SMEs).
He regularly assists Italian and international companies and entrepreneurs in the tax aspects of investments in Italy and abroad, in group restructuring, the re-positioning of their brands and other valuable assets in Italy.
He provides his advice to individuals and administrators of Italian and foreign trusts on the reorganisation of their investments in Italy and abroad, on the new tax regimes for the attraction of human capital in Italy (including the tax regimes of the "new residents") and the related aspects of wealth planning.
Italy, 2009
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‘Italy’s tax treatment of cryptocurrencies: The risks and opportunities’, The Block 29 April 2019
‘The tax profiles of wealth planning after the Mef clarifications’, The magazine of extraordinary matters n. 1/2018
Italian Bar
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Synergia Formazione: ‘Foreign investors in Italy: new tax opportunities’, Milan 23 March 2017
Me in a minute
International taxation is my passion
Education
Languages
- English
- French
- Italian
Dates
Joined
2016
